Flay's First Law of Decorating

[Flosshilde]

I have to say that I'd rather have a man in.

Why not use a sturdy chopstick as a paint stirrer? That's what I do (a plastic one inscribed Hounslow Chinese Restaurant, no idea where it came from!)

Hounslow?
(I fear that I might be making the same mistake as RT.)

[Flay]

Why not use a sturdy chopstick as a paint stirrer?

Funny that, an oriental link - I used a chopped off piece of bamboo. Both would fit in the drill chuck

been decorating the past few weeks. My Top Tip of the Day is - when painting a very narrow room (downstairs loo) don't step back for a breather and lean against freshly emulsioned wall!!

Actually, I did the whole room with a brush, walls and ceiling, rather than use a roller and I'm very pleased with the finish. I'm now on to my third project, the dining room. So far, no major disasters and no spilled paint.

I am most impressed. Did you manage to find the desired colours?

[Anna]

I have to say that I'd rather have a man in.

Well, of course we'd prefer that as well that Flossie!

Funny that, an oriental link - I used a chopped off piece of bamboo. Both would fit in the drill chuck I am most impressed. Did you manage to find the desired colours?

Have just checked - two chopsticks, one with Chinese writing and a picture of a Pheasant, the other simply says Hounslow Chinese Restaurant. Good thing, being plastic, once stirred the paint just wipes off!
Yes, I finally got desired colours, I've gone very subtle and pale (and interesting!) but a bit of a chore as painting over deep colours requires basecoat/more coats so a bit labour intensive.

[Zucchini]

I've learned that Lidl's masking tape (one mile for one pound) falls off the wall as soon as it's touched by paint & morphs into astoundingly strong coloured handcuffs when you try to pick it up

[Flay]

I've learned that Lidl's masking tape (one mile for one pound) falls off the wall as soon as it's touched by paint & morphs into astoundingly strong coloured handcuffs when you try to pick it up

Aha! Zucchini's Law:

You get what you pay for, and you always end up paying for what you got!

[Serial_Apologist]

Every Lidl helps

[EdgeleyRob]

ER's Second Law of Decorating.

Decorating (Brush full of emulsion paint) x imaginary conducting mode = mess
Music playing

[Flosshilde]

Would it be better if you were conducting Glass?

[Padraig]

Would it be better if you were conducting Glass?

Well, you would be less likely to make a pollock.

[mangerton]

Yes, I finally got desired colours, I've gone very subtle and pale (and interesting!) but a bit of a chore as painting over deep colours requires basecoat/more coats so a bit labour intensive.

Oh yes. I know that from bitter experience. I once lived in an upper flat of a very old property, access via an internal staircase. Management decreed that the staircase required painting, and had further decreed that a brown colour should be used. I wondered about that, but refrained from comment. I started operations one evening. I should point out that a ladder (note, not a step-ladder) was required in places. After thirty minutes, Management appeared to see how the work was progressing, and said that the colour was unsatisfactory. I quoted Magnus, and said that as I had started, I would finish. As I was covering an anaemic green, I had little option. I finished the brown, but had then to apply three coats of white, over the following week.

There's a lesson here.....

[Padraig]

Well, you would be less likely to make a pollock.

sorry.

[Flosshilde]

As I was covering an anaemic green,

When I read that, I first wondered why you were painting in your graduation outfit, then I thought that you must be a very messy painter.

Then I read it properly/the actual words sunk in.